Emmanuel Pastreich a leftist with intellectual integrity has written a defense of Donald Trump’s real achievements that  puts the backstabbing buffoons of the Republican party to greater shame than that which they heaped on themselves during their sniveling wimp-out on January 6.

Pastreich credits Trump with

opposing foreign wars;

opposing trade agreements that destroy the working class;

opposing immigration used as a tool against the country;

bringing the Federal Reserve more under the control of the Treasury;

opening up public discussion of the vast conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy and declassifying documents that relate to it and other crimes;

questioning the official story about 9/11 and many other conspiracies;

undermining the major media and promoting alternative media;

doing his best to defend us against the pandemic police state;

promoting the use of HCQ despite universal mockery;

supporting the hunt for pedophile blackmail rings;

and unveiling and publicizing the criminal corruption of the swamp.

It was for this last, says Pastereich, that he paid the price. He suddenly came down with Covid and shortly after was targeted by a vast election cyberhack involving multiple nations, all profiteering from the vaccine regime of the pandemic police state.

The finale of this world historical sabotage is the minor fracas now entered into official history as the Capitol Insurrection of January 6, for which Trump, painted as Miami’s answer to Osama Bin Laden, is being held solely responsible. This, argues Pastreich, is a prelude to making any dissent from the vaccine regime or the official election narrative a form of domestic terrorism subject to the full weight of the totalitarian state apparatus,

The only failing in this otherwise admirable essay is the needless pearl-clutching about Trump’s garish tastes in decor, multiple marriages, and ties to casinos and mobsters. Pastreich says he has “grudging respect” for Trump’s fundamental decency as a human being, considers him a much better president than Obama, Bush, or Clinton, but wouldn’t buy a used car from him.

Ah well. Thus ever the chattering classes. Even the very best among them would be useless on a battlefield.

We don’t have “grudging respect” for Trump. We  unequivocally like the guy. If the best you can bring to the endless inquisition about not so much Trump’s character as his style is status-signaling about your superior taste in clothes and houses, then you have established yourself only as a snob without a sense of proportion.

If his multiple wives…all of whom seen to stay friends with him… are the worst of his sins, then in the vicious dens of DC he is an innocent indeed.